Search Results - "Linguistic inquiry"

Now I'm a Phase, Now I'm Not a Phase: On the Variability of Phases with Extraction and Ellipsis by Boskovic, Zeljko

“…On the basis of a number of cases where the status of X with respect to phasehood changes depending on the syntactic context in which X occurs, I argue for a…”
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Voice and Ellipsis by Merchant, Jason

“…Elided VPs and their antecedent VPs can mismatch in voice, with passive VPs being elided under apparent identity with active antecedent VPs, and vice versa…”
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Articulated Definiteness without Articles by Jenks, Peter

“…While it lacks a definite article, Mandarin makes a principled distinction between unique and anaphoric definites: unique definites are realized with a bare…”
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How Much Context Is Enough? Two Cases of Span-Conditioned Stem Allomorphy by Merchant, Jason

“…Greek voice and aspect jointly condition verbal stem allomorphy, including suppletion. Negation and tense in English do likewise. These cases show that stem…”
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A Syntactic Universal and Its Consequences by Biberauer, Theresa, Holmberg, Anders, Roberts, Ian

“…This article investigates the Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC): a head-initial category cannot be the immediate structural complement of a head-final…”
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ϕ-Features at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Evidence from Nominal Inflection by Kučerová, Ivona

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Making a Pronoun: Fake Indexicals as Windows into the Properties of Pronouns by Kratzer, Angelika

“…This article argues that natural languages have two binding strategies that create two types of bound variable pronouns. Pronouns of the first type, which…”
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Three Factors in Language Design by Chomsky, Noam

“…The biolinguistic perspective regards the language faculty as an "organ of the body," along with other cognitive systems. Adopting it, we expect to find three…”
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CPs: Copies and Compositionality by Moulton, Keir

“…Finite clausal arguments differ from other arguments— and other CPs— in two fundamental ways: (a) they do not move leftward (Koster 1978, Alrenga 2005,…”
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Lightest to the Right: An Apparently Anomalous Displacement in Irish by Bennett, Ryan, Elfner, Emily, McCloskey, James

“…This article analyzes mismatches between syntactic and prosodic constituency in Irish and attempts to understand those mismatches in terms of recent proposals…”
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Tense and Aspect in English Infinitives by Wurmbrand, Susi

“…This article investigates the temporal and aspectual composition of infinitival complementation structures in English. I show that previous classifications of…”
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Revisiting Pronominal Typology by Patel-Grosz, Pritty, Grosz, Patrick G.

“…The overarching goal of this article is to shed new light on the debate over whether pronouns (she/he/it) generally have the syntax and semantics of definite…”
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Cyclic Agree by Béjar, Susana, Rezac, Milan

“…We propose that agreement displacement phenomena sensitive to person hierarchies arise from the mechanism of Agree operating on articulated Φ-feature…”
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Resumptive Pronouns Can Ameliorate Illicit Island Extractions by Ackerman, Lauren, Frazier, Michael, Yoshida, Masaya

“…Syntax literature reports that resumptive pronouns (RPs) ameliorate island violations, but much psycholinguistics literature has found RPs to be no more…”
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Anaphor Binding: What French Inanimate Anaphors Show by Charnavel, Isabelle, Sportiche, Dominique

“…Owing to different ideas about what counts as an anaphor subject to Condition A, two influential but superficially incompatible versions of Condition A of…”
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Two Components of Long-Distance Extraction: Successive Cyclicity in Dinka by van Urk, Coppe, Richards, Norvin

“…This article presents novel data from the Nilotic language Dinka, in which the syntax of successive-cyclic movement is remarkably transparent. We show that…”
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English Resumptive Pronouns Are More Common Where Gaps Are Less Acceptable by Morgan, Adam Milton, Wagers, Matthew W.

“…Ā-dependencies occur when an argument appears clause-peripherally, dislocated from its canonical base position, as in relative clauses. The displaced argument…”
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Strict Locality and Phonological Maps by Chandlee, Jane, Heinz, Jeffrey

“…In this article, we identify as a strong computational property of a certain class of phonological maps from underlying to surface forms. We show that these…”
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Conditions on Argument Drop by SIGUROSSON, Haudór Armann

“…This article pursues the idea that null arguments are derived without any statement or parameter, instead following "naturally" from 3rd factor principles and…”
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Stripping and Topless Complements by Wurmbrand, Susi

“…This article shows that stripping, the elision of declarative TPs, is possible not only in coordinate structures, but also in embedded clauses—however, only…”
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